{"id":777596,"date":"2026-09-21T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777596\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:40:14","slug":"uk-should-team-up-with-canada-in-new-europe-alliance-canadian-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777596\/","title":{"rendered":"UK should ‘team up’ with Canada in new Europe alliance, Canadian minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK should “team up” with a proposed economic alliance between Canada and Europe, Canadian Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne has said.<\/p>\n

“This is all about the substance, to build an alliance of the future,” he told the BBC. “The world has changed. America has changed. So we need to change.”<\/p>\n

Champagne also gave a frank assessment of the Canada-US trade war after a deal collapsed last month, saying the country had “stood up for our industries, our workers, our country” by imposing tariffs.<\/p>\n

His comments come after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed “opening the door” to an associate EU membership for Canada<\/a>, an unprecedented move for the bloc.<\/p>\n

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to address the EU in Strasbourg<\/a>, shortly after von der Leyen’s proposal was made, was “to build the alliance of the future”, Champagne said.<\/p>\n

Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, has previously talked about an alliance of “middle powers” working together on economic growth, resilience and security.<\/p>\n

Champagne told the BBC that the UK and Canada had shared values.<\/p>\n

“We need to look at partnership in a different way and the great thing is that when you look at Canada – and I would say the United Kingdom – we share the same values. We are very aligned in our vision of the world. Why don’t we team up?” he said.<\/p>\n

“We are independent and sovereign, but we are stronger together.”<\/p>\n

After his return to the White House last year, US President Donald Trump imposed sweeping global tariffs, including on long-standing trade allies such as the UK.<\/p>\n

While the UK renegotiated a trade deal with the US in June last year, the new Canada-EU alliance does raise questions for the UK’s post-Brexit positioning with Europe, as well as its position with the US, after some changes of presidential rhetoric over the Falklands and Irish unity in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Carney met Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Liverpool in the middle of his trip to Brussels and Strasbourg last week, while Champagne attended a meeting of EU finance ministers in Dublin on Friday, alongside Chancellor John Healey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK should “team up” with a proposed economic alliance between Canada and Europe, Canadian Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-777596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}